Remote Control of VLC
Posted: 27 Jan 2007 12:00
Hi,
Apologies of this has already been covered elsewhere on the forums, but this is quite a difficult topic to search for as I have a very specific need that I'm not sure has a name.
Currently, I run XP MCE on my MediaPC which is situated in a 19" rack. It has a long S-Video cable that extends through cable duct to my TV and another VGA cable that extends to a typical LCD monitor. What I do at the moment is treat it as a normal computer - I walk up to the KB/Mouse/Monitor, open up the media file I want to view on the TV, maximise it and go watch.
What I want to do is to be able to do this without the KB/Mouse/Monitor connected. Now, I can/do achieve this through VNC (TightVNC to be exact). However, I will be making changes to my media box that will give it serving functionality (web/ids/etc) and want people in my household to be able to watch files off it as we currently do - but without control of the OS.
My initial thought was a PHP script running on the media PC that fetches a list of the media files and allows a user viewing the web page to select a media file and have it launch on the media pc and go full screen. However, I'm not sure if this possible with my limited PHP experience. I could get the files to list and sort etc okay but I don't know where to begin in having it launch on the web server.
Any help would be appreciated, sorry for the long explanation but it's quite difficult to explain correctly.
Apologies of this has already been covered elsewhere on the forums, but this is quite a difficult topic to search for as I have a very specific need that I'm not sure has a name.
Currently, I run XP MCE on my MediaPC which is situated in a 19" rack. It has a long S-Video cable that extends through cable duct to my TV and another VGA cable that extends to a typical LCD monitor. What I do at the moment is treat it as a normal computer - I walk up to the KB/Mouse/Monitor, open up the media file I want to view on the TV, maximise it and go watch.
What I want to do is to be able to do this without the KB/Mouse/Monitor connected. Now, I can/do achieve this through VNC (TightVNC to be exact). However, I will be making changes to my media box that will give it serving functionality (web/ids/etc) and want people in my household to be able to watch files off it as we currently do - but without control of the OS.
My initial thought was a PHP script running on the media PC that fetches a list of the media files and allows a user viewing the web page to select a media file and have it launch on the media pc and go full screen. However, I'm not sure if this possible with my limited PHP experience. I could get the files to list and sort etc okay but I don't know where to begin in having it launch on the web server.
Any help would be appreciated, sorry for the long explanation but it's quite difficult to explain correctly.
